21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

Participating teams may also choose to apply to receive up to $7,500 in support to launch a service-learning afterschool program.

In the quest to fix ailing schools, should we slow down to move faster?

"It’s designed to be an outreach project for high school students who come here and shadow a college student who’s interested in a career in a health profession," said MSU Health Professions Club President, Joey Steffens.

The course has seen phenomenal success.

"In short, our young people are now in direct competition with youth from developing countries for many of what traditionally have been considered our ‘good middle-class white-collar" jobs.

The old image of "home schooling" has been dramatically changed, thanks to high-speed Internet access and the ever-expanding digital outreach of public schools.

"Proficiency in third grade reading is a huge indicator of the likelihood that a child will graduate from high school."

With her three autistic children as her “classroom” for the past decade, Laura Kasbar learned the unique ways autistic kids learn.

Young children who hear sophisticated language in preschool are better readers in fourth grade, according to a study in the journal Child Development that reinforces the message in previous research about the important connection between early oral language development and later literacy.

Both school districts said they were upgrading in order to meet continuing demand for streaming data, video and access to information stored in the cloud.